Check this out: Website where Iraqis write about their lives in the hell Bush has created:

[marmar]

http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/iraq/


Here are some samples:

March 04, 2007

Farewell
My friend,


I have seen too many people disappear from my life.


I have cried too many tears, spent too much time trying to recover dear moments, meaningful instances, bits of conversations, the sound of a remembered laugh, the look of an eye, the sound of a voice …

My life has made me a coward, I admit; I run away from goodbyes. Forgive me; you deserve better than that, as colleagues and as friends.

I hope you have taken good memories with you in spite of our harsh reality; and I wish that your outstanding courage could sustain you through the ordeal once again some time soon.


Our foreign colleagues come here to tell our story, to make known to the world our plight and reality, but when they leave, they take a little part of us with them …

Rest asured that you leave a little part of yourselves with us too.

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March 03, 2007
BAGHDAD CHAOS PLAN
Iraqi government call it (BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN) and we call it (BAGHDAD CHAOS PLAN) every single member in the security system taking money from the people to be released like for example I have paid in one day 30,000 Iraqi dinars to the traffic police and the peace keeping forces to be forgiven for the mistake that I did, my mistake was that I was driving my car in the street to go to my work in the time that I not suppose to be driving I mean the government have silly law obligate me to drive three days a week in the street in Baghdad because the numbers of the car as you know the (odds and even ) numbers my car was odd and I was driving in the even day so can you imagine he took 15,000 Iraqi dinars to him self instead giving me the 30,000 Iraqi dinars penalty recede from the government and the keeping peace forces guy did the same thing at the time that it is non of his responsibility….
Can you imagine that you are driving very happy and suddenly an Iraqi army soldier taking a guy from his car because he was wanted to the American and the Iraqi Government because he was related to the Mahdi Militia I was very happy when sow that I was feeling that there is some good will be happen in our future suddenly again the keeping peace forces show up again and they pulled there weapons to the soldiers head and they asked him to release the guy the Iraqi army in coincidence were driving by the same area and they sow that scene they got mad and they start shooting at each others and the funny thing that they didn't mentioned about it on TV so we still have the big hope in Baghdad chaos plan to bring more chaos for us till Almaliky give Baghdad to mahdi militia successfully without any contradiction from the American side..

Thanks for your time



February 28, 2007
$ 7.75
Yesterday I went to the bank.


Wow! I thought. So many people!

Iraqis are not “bank oriented” people, if they have any excess; they tend to keep it at home.

Previous experiences have taught us not to trust banks; they have been known to hold on to your money when you need it in a jiffy!

But looking at the numbers inside that bank, I thought, “I have been out of touch; bad girl.”


I go in, only to find people pushing and shoving one another; fighting, shouting and cursing each other. “This is not normal,” I said to myself.

I try to reach the employee with whom I have business, but my efforts are to no avail. One human current pushes me this way and another pulls me that. A proper riot!

I began to have serious misgivings.

“What is this all about?” I asked a lady who was trying, in vain, to keep from being crushed between two men, to my right, “Have you got any idea?”

“Where do you come from? Don’t you know that the government is giving people relief? At last we are remembered!”

“Really!! That’s excellent!!” It was my good fortune to be at the bank this day! Although half suffocated, I felt elated at being “remembered”. “How much?”

“10 000 Dinars!” (Equivalent to $7.75, purchasing power: 50 eggs).


….. Numbness.. …..


Fighting ….. Rioting ….. Flayed nerves and hot tempers flying ….. for 10 000 Dinars.


Where do I come from?

How many thousands have been decommissioned?

How many thousands were in Saddam’s army, police and intelligence agencies?

Thousands of others – professionals - dismissed from their government jobs on pretext of debathhification?

Yet more thousands displaced; and more still terrorized into a futile stay-at-home existence??


Riots in the bank for ID 10 000, $ 7.75.


And for $100; what would they be prepared to do?

For $500?

For $1000??

How many will cross that line? It’s not easy to see your family starve for principles.

Mercenaries on Iranian payroll.

Mercenaries on American payroll.

Mercenaries on ANY payroll.


Hear! Hear! An army for a pittance. Gather yea all, who have an interest to participate in this charade. Stakes are high! All of Iraq is the stage.

[ChazII]

1. If I wish to know

I visit Shiachat.com

[merh]

2. If you didn't want to know, why read the thread

Show some restraint and some manners.